A Few Good Men (play)

A Few Good Men
The cast of A Few Good Men at the Haymarket Theatre, London in 2005
Written by	Aaron Sorkin
Characters	LTJG Daniel A. Kaffee Capt. Julius A. Randolph Pfc. Louden Downey LCDR JoAnne Galloway Capt. Isaac Whitaker Lt. Jack Ross Capt. Matthew A. Markinson Lt. Col. Nathan R. Jessep LCpl. Harold W. Dawson 1Lt Jonathan James Kendrick (among others)
Place premiered	Kennedy Center in Washington, DC
Original language	English
Subject	Military justice
Genre	Courtroom drama
Setting	Summer 1986 Guantanamo Bay Naval Base General court-martial in Washington, D.C.

A Few Good Men is a play by Aaron Sorkin, first produced on Broadway by David Brown in 1989. It tells the story of military lawyers at a court-martial who uncover a high-level conspiracy in the course of defending their clients, two United States Marines accused of murder.

It opened on Broadway at the Music Box Theatre in New York on November 15, 1989, in a production directed by Don Scardino, with Tom Hulce as LTJG Kaffee, Megan Gallagher as LCDR JoAnne Galloway and Stephen Lang as Col Jessep.

Sorkin adapted his work into a screenplay for a 1992 film directed by Rob Reiner, produced by Brown and starring Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, and Demi Moore. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, and the Golden Globe for Best Screenplay.

Sorkin got the idea for the play from a phone conversation with his sister Deborah, who had graduated from Boston University Law School and was serving a three-year stint with the Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps. She was going to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base to defend a group of Marines who had come close to killing a fellow Marine in a hazing ordered by a superior officer. Sorkin took that information and wrote much of his story on cocktail napkins while bartending at the Palace Theatre on Broadway.